Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Also Known As: Вячеслав Тихонов, Вячеслав Васильевич Тихонов, Viatcheslav Tikhonov
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his father an engineer in the local textile factory. Vyacheslav dreamed of acting but his parents envisioned a different career, and during the war he worked in a munitions factory. After employment as a metal worker, he began [training for an] acting career in 1945 by entering, not without difficulty, the Actors’ Faculty of VGIK. After graduating VGIK with honours in 1950, he began his acting career on stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor, where he worked for six years. In 1948 he married Nonna Mordyukova, a popular actress at the time (the couple had one son, Vladimir, also an actor who died in 1990). The marriage was dissolved in 1963. Later Tikhonov married a second time to Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova and had one child with her, Anna Tikhonova (also an actor) in 1969. He died on 4 December 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed his condolences to Tikhonov's family.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union
Birthday: February 08, 1928
Deathday: December 04, 2009
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Gender: Male
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Woina i Mir
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the filming of "War and Peace," from conceptual sketches and costume design to cameras rolling.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-05-15
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Profession: Film Actor
Overview: Vyacheslav Tikhonov's roles are discussed by his colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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To Kill a Dragon
Overview: Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's multiple personalities, ranging from a "dragon" to a "samurai" to a "Nazi", scare the hell out of all people, except Lancelot. Finally Dragon drops all his masks, to become the most dangerous of his incarnations - "himself". And the battle begins
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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War and Peace
Overview: A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Genres: History Drama War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-04-28
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Zosya
Overview: In this WWII drama, Russian soldiers take a break at a scenic farm in Poland, and the unit is able to escape the horrors of war during their brief respite. A Polish farm girl and a Russian officer feel a mutual and unspoken attraction towards each other.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-09-18
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Burnt by the Sun
Overview: Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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Venture
Overview: On board the ocean liner, the agents of the special services of the three former union republics, are spying on agent Nikitin, who is instructed to withdraw money from the CPSU account in a Swiss bank ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-06-06
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The Codex of Disgrace
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Genres: Mystery Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-06-06
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Four Winds of Heaven
Overview: A young girl Svetlana just arrived to the small town when a war begun. Her fiancé Igor did not meet Svetlana so she stayed alone to wait for him.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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May Stars
Overview: May 1945. On the outskirts of Prague, ordinary people meet Soviet soldiers-liberators with tears of joy in their eyes. In the early days of the lull, someone sadly recalls a pre-war life; someone unexpectedly meets his love; someone is returning from enemy dungeons looking hopefully into the future; and someone, having moved from a tank into a Czech tram, warmly recalls his craft as a car driver... These days, all those who survived the Great War fire swear an oath to keep peace on Earth forever, honoring the memory of those who gave their lives for simple human happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-05-05
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They Fought for Their Motherland
Overview: In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1975-11-05
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The Young Guard
Overview: In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon during the Nazi occupation of Russia. The teens manage to outsmart the Nazis in their fight, and their activity lifts the spirits of the surviving citizens.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1948-10-11
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We'll Live Till Monday
Overview: Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-07-02
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It Happened in Penkovo
Overview: Tractor driver Matvey Morozov returns to his native village from the prison. And he recalls the story of his marriage, his fatal love, failed betrayal and committed reckless “crime”, in which he doesn't repent at all.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-02-17
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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Overview: The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-03-14
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Extraordinary Accident
Overview: The crew of a soviet cargo falls prey to an act of piracy in waters between China and Taiwan, and are taken to Taiwan where they are pressured into stating they chose to go into the free world.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1958-06-06
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In Peaceful Time
Overview: A few days from the life of Soviet submariners - during a regular peaceful time...
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1950-06-06
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Heart Beats Again
Overview: A drama about a daily life of a doctors in a military hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-11-21
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An Optimistic Tragedy
Overview: 1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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Front Without Flanks
Overview: A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge of the special group of partisans. His group is absorbing other small groups of Russian soldiers, who managed to survive from the attacks of the overwhelming Nazi forces. The Nazi Armies are advancing to Moscow. Major Mlynsky is organizing the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazis, behind the enemy lines.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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Front Beyond the Front Line
Overview: A second episode in the trilogy about the partisans fighting against the Nazis during the WWII on the territory of Russia. Film is set in the winter of 1943-1944. Major Mlynsky is the commander of the partisan group, that is fighting behind the Nazi's front-lines. Major Mlynsky is invited to the Chief of Staff, where he is promoted to Lt.-Colonel for his courage. Now Mlynsky is in charge of the new partisan's operation.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-12-20
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Front in the Rear of the Enemy
Overview: A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. Colonel Mlynsky is now in charge of an international clandestine operation. He is the commander of the special group of partisan-fighters. Mlynsky is organizing the Russian, Polish and Czechoslovakian partisans to join forces for an attack behind the enemy lines.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1981-12-20
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It Can Not Be Forgotten
Overview: The story unfolds in a post-war town in Western Ukraine. The enemy agents are trying to subvert communist writer Aleksandr Garmash using ideological diversions. In parallel, a story is told about student Rostislav Danchenko who is being recruited by enemy agents. The story is pertinent due to resurgence of ultra-nationalist underground activity in Western Ukraine after World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1954-07-05
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Love with Benefits
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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White Bim Black Ear
Overview: A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite the dog's black ear being a "shame of nature" to his breed. The man always took his dog, whom he called Bim or Bimka, to hunting in country. Later, however Ivan Ivanovich began to have problems with heart and when the disease became worse was taken to a hospital. His dog couldn't bear waiting for the only person that ever cared for him and set out to find his master. Thus began the story of a homeless dog and his many breathtaking and exciting adventures, encounters of many people, kind and evil, and leads to an unexpected and heart-rending end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1977-09-15
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Midshipman Panin
Overview: It is May 1912. Thirteen political prisoners are being tried in a naval fortress of Kronstadt. They are sentenced to death by hanging. A clandestine Bolshevik organization decides to free the prisoners during their transfer to the place of execution. Vasily Panin, a junker of a school of naval engineers, is one of those entrusted with this dangerous task.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1960-05-25
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Demons
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-05-27
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The Roundabout
Overview: Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Thirst
Overview: Based on real events. Vyacheslav Tikhonov, in the first of his spy roles, portrays a scout in an operation to free an Odessa water plant from the Nazis.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-12-17
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Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
Overview: An omnibus of comical shorts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-01-08
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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Overview: In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets of Andrei. At the last minute, she regrets and abandons her plans to elope with Anatol. Bolkonsky hears of this and declares their betrothal is over. Pierre, trying to calm her down, suddenly announces he loves her.
Genres: History Romance Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Overview: In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of Borodino, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Bolkonsky's unit waits in the reserve, but he is hit by a shell. Both Anatol and Bolkosnky suffer severe wounds. The French Army is victorious and advances on Moscow.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-07-21
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War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Overview: As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the French are forced to retreat, he is marched for months with the Grande Armée, until being freed by a raiding party. The French are defeated by Kutuzov in the Battle of Krasnoi. Andrei is recognized and is brought to his estate. He forgives Natasha on his deathbed. She reunites with Pierre and they marry as Moscow is being rebuilt.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-11-04
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Maximka
Overview: Saved by Russian sailors black boy turned out to be the smart and kind nipper.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1952-06-19
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Звёзды на крыльях
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1955-07-19
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Impatience of the Soul
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Genres: History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-07-01
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...И другие официальные лица
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1976-11-08
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Two Lives
Overview: In the center of the film - two lives, two destinies. A simple, illiterate soldier Vostrikov of the Tsar's Army during the years of Soviet power grew into a devoted fighter of the revolution, he became a general of the Soviet Army, respected by all. A guards officer, a brilliant prince Naschyokin, who fought against Soviet power, emigrated from his native country and eventually became a lackey in a port restaurant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1961-10-16
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Sweet friend of long forgotten years
Overview: Maria, the wife of a successful official from St. Petersburg, met with a provincial engineer. A chance meeting of spiritually close people becomes the beginning of the history of Sizzling passion, which ended tragically.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1996-06-17
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A Boulevard Romance
Overview: The film was shot on the story of Valentin Pikul “Go and do not sin”, which tells about the real events that took place in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The story of the young beauty Olga Palem from a poor large family is replete with tragic events. Olga's passionate disinterested love for student Alexander Zapolsky becomes her evil rock. Spoiled and selfish, Alexander is not able to appreciate her feelings. Exhausted by humiliation, a young woman kills her lover. The high-profile trial of Olga Pale becomes a sensation that stirred up the whole of Russia ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1995-04-10
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The Man from the Other Side
Overview: After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the opponents of the revolution.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-03-26
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European Story
Overview: Two candidates are vying for the post of mayor of one of the major Western European cities - the Social Democrat Dr. Hayden and the "free nationalist" Alden. On the eve of the election, an independent journalist receives documents confirming Alden's connection with the secret services. He becomes the object of blackmail, but does not change his intentions to expose Alden.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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The Ghosts of the Green Room
Overview: According to the story of JB Prestley "Jenny Villiers." Actors of the London Theater gathered in the Green Room of Barton Spa, a kind of theater museum. The playwright Martin Civerell expresses his doubts that the theater is able to regain its former charm. Left alone in the Green Room, Civerell sees the actors of the last century and becomes a witness to the drama that happened here a hundred years ago...
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1991-08-01
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Yegor Bulychyov and Others
Overview: In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic discord with himself, with the world that surrounds him, with great social injustice, to which his whole life has been given. The idea of the film is to determine the purpose and meaning of the existence of the human person, consider its polysyllabic and versatile connections with the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-04-09
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Family Happiness
Overview: Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1970-06-08
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Andersen. Life Without Love
Overview: Drama based on life and love of a famous Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-12-21
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An Essay on Victory Day
Overview: On the eve of the Victory Day celebrations, three old wartime friends reunite in Moscow. But they don’t get a chance to sit and recall their long-forgotten exploits. Chairman of the Veterans Foundation Kilovatov (O. Yefremov) is accused of dealings with the criminal world and put behind the bars. Former dissident Morgulis (V. Tikhonov), now residing abroad, and participant of protest rallies Dyakov (M. Ulyanov) organize the release of their friend from prison. Confronted with the cruelty of their enemies who masterminded the arrest of their wartime buddy, our heroes involve mafia and security service in the release operation, and then decide to hijack a plane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1999-01-21
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Through the Eyes of a Wolf
Overview: In the not distant future, flights beyond the solar system are becoming a reality. At the same time, the secret Human Planning Institute is engaged in personality modeling. But on one of their "pupils" the system malfunctioned. The special services were powerless to return it under their control and were forced to turn to the help of an old scientist-inventor who had long avoided society ...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-05-18
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Берлинский экспресс
Overview: The action of the picture takes place on the eve of the Second World War. A senior Soviet diplomat working in Germany was suddenly recalled to Moscow. On the train, he meets his only neighbor in the carriage - a beautiful young woman who is in the last months of her pregnancy. To pass the time on the road, she tells him her life. An experienced scout does not immediately understand that his charming companion did not accidentally find herself in this car...
Genres: History Mystery
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Why Was Olof Palme Killed?
Overview: From the cycle "Political Theater". The teleplay is built as a kind of investigation into the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, during which, unlike a criminal investigation, not the identity of the criminal is revealed, but the fate of Palme himself, his life principles, views, intentions and dreams.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-27
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Provincial Benefit
Overview: Life in art based on the plays of A. Ostrovsky: "Talents and Admirers", "Forest", etc.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Appeal
Overview: At a meeting of the bureau, under pressure from the first secretary of the district committee of the party, the agronomist of the collective farm Boris Kholmovoy was dismissed and expelled from the party for allegedly arbitrary actions. Disagreeing with the decision of the district committee, Kholmovoy files an appeal. The secretary of the regional party committee Plotnikov, wanting to understand this complicated matter, goes to the collective farm.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Across Red Nights
Overview: Moscow, the years of perestroika. The quiet life of Eduard and Pavla turns into a nightmare one day. Edward accidentally kills his attacker while protecting his comrade in a fight. Both go to jail, and his friend commits suicide. Suddenly, the hero of the film is offered a deal to get him out of prison. The task seems to be simple - you need to deliver a mysterious suitcase. Soon, Edward realizes that he is becoming a participant in a terrorist attack...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-07-01
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Vacation at Your Own Expense
Overview: A young girl from the Siberian province arrives in Moscow for her beloved, whom she met during his business trip. He is a test designer for buses and will be on a business trip to Hungary. It was at this point that Katya set her vacation time. But it seems that they didn’t really wait for her... However, a meeting with László changes all her plans...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Несравненная
Overview: Anastasia Dmitrievna Vyaltseva, who performed on the opera stage, was called "incomparable" during her lifetime. Obsessed with the desire to sing, the young provincial woman arrived in St. Petersburg, joined the troupe of the musical theater of the entrepreneur Arkady Palma, married the patron of the arts Nikolai Kholev, and soon gave her first concerts. The first success, the first triumphant tour of Russia and the first losses. Her husband dies, the Russo-Japanese war begins, she goes to the front and will do everything that is the responsibility of a sister of mercy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Píseň o stromu a růži
Overview: Soviet engineer Kuznecov is coming to Prague as an expert on work with the tunneling shield in construction of the metro. He is returning after more than thirty years. In May 1945 as a young soldier in the Red Army he was seriously injured in the liberation of Prague and while recovering experienced a great love with a young teacher called Vera.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1979-04-24
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Диалог
Overview: Political TV movie about the joint work of the Soviet journalist Ershov (V. Tikhonov) and the West German director on a documentary film dedicated to the relaxation of international tension.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1978-08-07
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Aurora
Overview: Children will learn the fate of the legendary cruiser «Aurora».
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1973-05-12
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Taras Shevchenko
Overview: Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people. The poems of Shevchenko are imbued with love for the common people. Fiery freedom-loving creativity of Taras Shevchenko is known throughout Russia. Nicholas I exiles the poet to the distant Caspian fort where he is to serve as an ordinary soldier and is banned from writing or drawing. In the poet's difficult days he has the support of Ukrainian soldier Skobelev, Polish revolutionary Sierakowski, captain Kosarev and the commandant of the fortress, Uskov. For the sake of his release Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov are hard at work. And so, the sick and aged Shevchenko is finally free. Together with Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, he dreams of a bright future of the motherland, when the Russian and Ukrainian peoples throw off the chains of slavery.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1951-12-17
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